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Today, the second court hearing was held in Brussels against the 124 defendants in the so-called "Sky ECC" Megaprocess against a cocaine trafficking criminal organization made up of Albanians, Belgians and Colombians.
In the session held two days ago, the resident of Vlonia, Eridan Munoz Guerrero, who bears the Colombian surname of his wife, also testified. Several suspects appeared before the Brussels criminal court on Wednesday. These included a lawyer, a man who allegedly acted as a soldier and a Colombian who allegedly worked as a "cook" in cocaine laboratories. All three denied having any connection to any criminal activity.
Lawyer Sofian B. visited prime suspect Eridan Guerrero in Namur prison shortly after his arrest in December 2021 and allegedly tried to extort him. The federal public prosecutor's office suspects that B. was called by members of the Antwerp drug scene to pressure Guerrero to pay a sum of 500,000 euros to reimburse the drugs and money that had been seized. Lawyer Sofian B. denied this.
"I didn't go there as a criminal lawyer, but as a business lawyer. Someone introducing himself as his cousin had asked me to visit him and offer my services to recover the confiscated goods. But Mr. Guerrero told me that he did not need my services. That's why our conversation was very short ," he said.
B. no longer works as a lawyer, but has been working as a compliance officer in the banking sector for some time.
A second suspect, Member B., worked in a business center that provided services to various companies. There he met Eridan Guerrero in November 2019, who introduced himself as “Mr. Mario".
“He wanted to have some vehicles insured and later asked for my help to find him a building for one of his companies. He was looking for something with offices and a warehouse. I helped him find that building and collect the necessary documents to rent it. I later offered him various other services, including putting him in touch with other people. After a while I had the feeling that something was not good, but I never thought it was drug trafficking" , explained Member B.
The investigation showed that Anjar B. had contact with a police officer from the South area of Brussels (Anderlecht/Sint-Gillis/Vorst), from whom he allegedly requested information. The federal public prosecution suspects that this happened in the context of drug trafficking, but according to Member B. this is not correct: “I had a new client who wanted to insure a very expensive vehicle and threatened me because I refused. I asked the officer. if that young man was known to be dangerous, to know if it was worth making a complaint."
Member B. is also said to have been involved in the kidnapping and assault of Abdelhak H., the driver of a drug transport who allegedly stole his cargo. Photos of the raped H. were found on B's smartphone. "But he had forwarded it to me himself," B replied.
"I had been looking for him for several days because he had to pay the insurance urgently and I couldn't catch him, then he sent me those photos with the message that something had happened to him, that he had been attacked by people to whom he owed money."
Albanian Maringlen C. is also said to have been involved in the kidnapping and assault. "I just saw it," he said. "I was in Rotterdam at the time and received the message that Abdelhak H. was coming there to pick up a load of cocaine. I knew there had been a problem with a previous load. When we went to another Albanian to get drugs, H. was immediately beaten and he confessed that he had stolen that previous load".
Maringlen C. also admitted that he had been living with Eridan Guerrero for a time and had given drugs to drug delivery drivers and made payments. "But I have nothing to do with the extraction of large quantities of cocaine from the port of Dunkirk. That my DNA and fingerprints were found in a building where a drug lab was found? I went there once to use drugs myself, that's all."
Another Albanian admitted that he had worked in a drug laboratory and had "washed" 80 kilograms of cocaine, while a young man from Andenne admitted that he had carried out six drug shipments. The last suspect questioned on Wednesday was a Colombian man in his fifties who, according to the federal public prosecutor's office, had come to Belgium from Spain to help build cocaine laboratories.
“I'm a simple worker who just came to help with a move. I loaded some water bottles with chemical products into a van, but I don't know where that van went and I didn't see any cocaine. The man in his fifties dismissed the fact that two other Colombian suspects described him as a "recruiter" as a lie, he said.
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